Every year on, or around September 11th is set aside as a national day of service. I wonder how many citizen's of our country actually know this. I don't hear much about it except at church. Our church, which is established throughout the world, takes this National Day of Service very seriously. Church leadership in Salt Lake City encourages all congregations to organize a service project that will benefit the communities we live in on this day. The Service Projects are usually designed for all members in the families of a congregation to participate. Through the years Jason and I have helped out with many of these projects. Each one has blessed our lives and others.
This year our Stake, which is a group of seven congregations like a Catholic Diocese, planned to collect food for local food banks. We were asked to invite and involve our neighbors to also help gather food. Jason and I took the bags around to our neighbors. They all donated food. One of our neighbors went to the grocery store and brought us about 15 bags of food. It was very awesome, and seriously caused me to shed a few tears. It was a thrill to gather food from our neighborhood, and then drive a van full of food to the church. My favorite part was that my children were able to participate in this awesome project. I was sad that Jason had to work, and didn't get to be a part of the project on the gathering day.
All Volunteers had to wear one of these.
Glenn and Max worked so very hard.
Our Stake gathered over 15,000 pounds of food!!! It was awesome! When the first food bank guy came to pick up he was happy and overwhelmed with how much food we had for him to pick up.
This is just one of three locations filled with bags of food like this. It was so awesome!
Many hands make for light work.
Do you see Max and Glenn? They were two of the only youth there. Max was the youngest helper. I was very proud of them.
Harrison was bummed that I wouldn't let him do too much. I told him that the best way for him to help was to sit on the curb. He did NOT like that idea at all.
Lily was helping too.
Did I mention that it was hot? Well it was. After all the hard work we had to go get some Frenzi Frozen Yogurt. YUM!
All Volunteers had to wear one of these.
Glenn and Max worked so very hard.
This is just one of three locations filled with bags of food like this. It was so awesome!
Many hands make for light work.
Do you see Max and Glenn? They were two of the only youth there. Max was the youngest helper. I was very proud of them.
Harrison was bummed that I wouldn't let him do too much. I told him that the best way for him to help was to sit on the curb. He did NOT like that idea at all.
Lily was helping too.
Did I mention that it was hot? Well it was. After all the hard work we had to go get some Frenzi Frozen Yogurt. YUM!
